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Nailed on it will be a relegated team or Leeds, and it'll be on TV.

11 minutes ago, Caerphilly Ram said:

I thought the same, might be “misreading” him but he spoke like he’s still going to be a part of things and I’m keen for that to happen.

As long as we don't bumble into the season with him being 1st, or even 2nd, choice then we can live with that.

45 minutes ago, Ghost of Clough said:

It's fair to say we'll have a midtable wage bill next season. The same can't be said about transfer fees. This season, only 5 clubs spent less than £2m (according to Transfermarkt), a figure I'll be amazed if we exceed. If you exclude player sales from all clubs, I would still expect our total budget (wages plus fees) to be lower midtable (13th-18th).
Preston's wage bill was £21m in 22/23. We'll be closer to Swansea, Blackburn and QPR who were in the £25-26m region last season. Swansea and Blackburn both having a cat 1 academy so are reasonable comparisons in relation to first team budget.

Big problem we have, in order to compete with these teams, is finding cheap talent or academy prospects and getting the big money. Swansea and Blackburn, for example, sold Joel Piroe and Adam Wharton for over £30m combined. QPR, the other team you mentioned, haven't sold anyone for much value and have totaled £3-4m in a couple of seasons in sales and haven't paid money for anyone themselves since 21/22 season. The contrast is stark.

1 hour ago, On the Ram Page said:

Why would the club announce their transfer budget and force the price up by the selling clubs knowing what we have available?

They shouldn't. Don't know if that was a specific question to me or not.

58 minutes ago, Tyler Durden said:

Has anyone connected with Derby actually come out and even alluded to what our transfer budget will be this summer, whether we will have to sell first to outlay on transfer fees etc etc?

Sell who? The only player we have with value is Cashin!

But no, other than us being competitive and not there to make up the numbers, we don’t know. And those statements don’t really tell you much either as that’s different to different people. 

It’s a fair ask though, do we think we will spend more than £1m on anyone? I’m dubious. 

3 hours ago, DerbyPride said:

How about the Sammon Stand or Claude Corner?

Maybe if we just named Row Z after them?

apparently available for around £300k. Would hope we would be thinking about that. 

57 minutes ago, BOB BIGGS said:

Szmodics is rated at around £4m so I think we can forget that unfortunately. 

Blackburn are quoting people £15m for Szmodics so not sure where you’ve read £4m. It’s nonsense like, he’s 29, they ain’t getting £15m. 

2 minutes ago, Ian Buxton's Bat said:

I think we have to retain the ball better in the Champ because we won't get it back as easily off better players and they will punish us more harshly when we do give it away.

Only two players have over 80% pass accuracy for this season and that's Nyambe and Hourihane.

I'd keep Hourihane as a squad player for that reason - and he does provide goals and assists - but I think we'll need a tweaked style of play and not just players who are better at doing what we've done.

If you look on Whoscored stats there's a reasonable trend between number of players with pass accuracy over 80% and league position for the Champ.

I just don't understand what you can possibly have watched to think Hourihane would be good enough for another League 1 season, let alone a Championship one. We wouldn't get the ball back to be able to keep it with him in midfield!

Curtis Nelson: 10
Callum Elder: 4
Joe Ward: 6
Sonny Bradley: 4
Josh Vickers: 6
Kane Wilson: 8
Martyn Waghorn: 4
Conor Washington: 5 
Tyrese Fornah: 6
Elliot Embleton: 1
Ryan Nyambe: 8
Tyreece John-Jules: 5

Winter:

Ebou Adams: 10
Dwight Gayle: 7
Corey Blackett-Taylor: 6
Max Bird*: 7

Extensions:
Nathaniel Mendez-Laing: 9
Eiran Cashin: 10
Jake Rooney: 8

4 minutes ago, S8TY said:

personally not sure he'll be good enough for championship, impact player from the bench at best maybe

does anyone know if we are obligated to buy ?

rather we put  the 300K towards Adams fee

Money will be tight and we really need to spend it wisely

 

 

It’s already done. 
 

FWIW, I think he showed flashes but clearly struggled for fitness and to seemingly get involved in a tight knit squad. Think pre-season will be huge for him and allow Warne to work on his defensive game to enable him to be trusted a bit more. He will be an asset next year, I’ve seen enough to believe that. 

The coffee cup game was better than the 5-0 for me. Dont know whether it was jus the expectations at the time or my age, but I’ve always loved that. 

Southampton play off semi. Pitch invasion in torrential rain. Epic that was. 

Matlock probably the first one, then I imagine we will go abroad again. Maybe even to the same place as it clearly worked last year. Chesterfield again would be fine too with them getting promoted. Maybe Wolves or Villa if we are going premier league at home. 

Think Warne will be targeting 22-28 primarily. This guy will be 30 before the new season. Now whilst that isn't over the hill necessarily, I can't see us signing many the wrong side of 30.

10 minutes ago, Wolfie20 said:

Some have commented on the poor start Bradley made and I can't disagree but those first 2 or 3 home games there was a total lack of understanding in the back 3 and for me, Nelson was as much at fault as Bradley - all too often it was a case of "after you Claude". Apart from his red card aberration he has more than done enough to be brought back into the team.

I would release Waghorn, Hourihane, Gayle, JJ & Loach and try to move on Washington, Fornah & Elder.

I wouldn't feel comfortable with Bradley starting games. He has his use, mainly attacking set pieces. But he's slow as hell, tentative and his first thought is to wrestle.

He apparently played well away at Cambridge but I didn't watch that game. From the games I've watched, he's done well when we've not been asked to defend which isn't exactly a good measuring stick.

8 minutes ago, WystonRam said:

Was it his Corner that Wilson scored off v Bolton ?

It was, but non-league players can take a corner.

Pretty sure it was the main guy who chose to rejoin Hassenhuttl in the Bundesliga.

Not sure how much people know about youth development, but it doesn't happen in less than 12 months regardless. 

1 minute ago, Crewton said:

He's got an older brother called Marksun, but he's not just any older brother....

Ah yeah, know the family well. His Dad is called Frank.

1 minute ago, jimtastic56 said:

Elder is one of Warne’s favourites- he always seems to get straight back on after injuries . At 28 he is one of our “Youngsters”. Expect to see a lot of him next season .

He's a left back Conor Sammon. Bit of an athlete, tragic footballer.

3 minutes ago, RoyMac5 said:

"Derby County have signed Australia left-back Callum Elder on a three-year deal following his Hull City departure.

The 28-year-old, who played more than 130 games for the Tigers in four years, will move to Pride Park when his Hull contract expires at the end of June."

Oh christ, he has 2.

Damn.

8 hours ago, mike93rh said:

Hourihane, Elder and Barks I'd release. 

Thompson and Sibley I'd keep in a heartbeat. I think Thompson in particular would fair better in the championship than league 1...

Elder still has a year left. 

OldBen making me miss that Scottish football guy 

If i hear Gregory or Smith this summer I swear to god.

6 minutes ago, eddielewis said:

Free agents under 23 would still have a compo fee attached so I guess he'd be worth a bit £400-500k at least.

20p based on Ebiowei.

Speaking of... can we have him back?

Just now, Caerphilly Ram said:

Agree about Barkhuizen, there’s a couple within the current squad who can do a job in the champ, especially as we should play against teams more willing to open up and play a bit leaving us space to exploit.
Him, CBT, NML and ideally a younger, pacier 4th option with Ward and Wilson still around too gives us solid options out wide. 

The big question for some players is what role do they want next year? If they're happy being a rotation/bench option then we might see more stay like Sibley, Thompson etc. If they want to start more, they may choose themselves to move.